The 2nd Poem of the 2022 Matric Poetry Set. A line-by-line summary and analysis of the poem "Love's Farewell" by Michael Drayton. Also with a particular focus on meaning, context, figures of speech, and punctuation. This will help give a deeper understanding and detail to the poem and make it more...
‘Love’s Farewell’
By Michael Drayton
Structure:
- Elizabethan
- 3 Quatrains
- Rhyming Couplet
Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
About: A man talking to his lover about the end of their relationship and his
conflicting feelings and view towards it switching between hostility,
amicability, respect, and denial etc.
Pronouns:
” you” – is the speaker’s ex-love interest
“I” / “Me” - is the speaker who has confliction feeling on the subject and
toward the “you”.
Important Poetic Elements/Figures of Speech/Punctuation:
Apostrophe (not the punctuation When the speaker directly refers to
mark) someone who isn’t there/present.
*Throughout the entire poem
Personification The attribute of a personal nature or
human characteristics to something
non-human or the representation of
an abstract quality in human form.
Dash [-] Can indicate a shift in
thought/direction or can create a
pause.
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, Theme:
Love (the poet thinks he has the power in this situation, but the lover does)
- Ideas that it is not limitless
- Ideas that power plays a role
Speaker’s Overall perspective: He is saying to the lover that he doesn’t need
them but if they still love him, then they can get back together.
Title:
‘Love’s Farwell’
Quite self-explanatory, talks of what the poem is about an end to a
relationship or parting ways between two people. ‘Love’ as an abstract idea is
personified, by performing the human action of saying goodbye rather than
the people in the relationship.
Stanza One:
Tone: Sincere | Confrontational | Decided
Line 1: ‘Since there’s no help, come “No help”- they’ve tried
let us kiss and part-’ unsuccessfully to repair their
relationship.
“Kiss and part” – want for final
goodbye, to end on amicable terms
[-] Dash – indicates a shift in
thought
Line 2: ‘Nay I have done, you get no “Nay”- contradicts himself / his
more of me;’ previous words.
“No more of me” – feels she is not
worth it the amicability (something
has push him to change his mind)
He is no longer open to
reconciliation.
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